Matthieu Furet, PhD student in the ReV team and Philippe Wenger received the silver best research paper award at the MEDER conference (IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics), which took place in Udine, Italy from 11 to 13 September 2018.

Yann Briheche, a PhD graduate from Centrale Nantes and LS2N, received the Thales PhD Prize 2018 on 29th November for his thesis on "Optimization of search patterns for fixed-panel tridimensional scanning radars".

Centrale Nantes makes its entrance today into the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Engineering & Technology Ranking – ranked 4th amongst the best French universities and in the 176-200 worldwide grouping for this subject.

On 27 June, David Le Touzé, Centrale Nantes Professor and LHEEA researcher, received the Joe Monaghan prize, for the second time running, alongside his Italian co-authors from INSEAN, a research institute of the CNR (National Research Council of Italy).

Centrale Nantes is playing host to the 24th edition of the Inter-Ecoles Centrale Research Symposium (CRIEC) for the week commencing Monday 25th June 2018. The four-day event gives 100 PhD students from the five Ecoles Centrale, (Centrale Supélec, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Nantes, Centrale Lille and Centrale Marseille), the opportunity to exchange views and present their research work during plenary sessions and oral presentations dealing with topics ranging from additive manufacturing, to marine renewable energies, or robotics etc.

Congratulations to the PhD student Tugdual LE NÉEL who, accompanied by Jean-Yves Hascoët, his thesis supervisor, and Pascal Mognol, co-thesis supervisor, received the Dick Aubin Distinguished Paper Award at the Rapid & TCT Conference on 23rd April 23rd in Texas. The jury considered his work on the combination of different materials to create a very promising binder injection mold to address some of the current challenges in traditional sand casting.

Congratulations to Bijou Mwaura, first year Bachelor student on the Centrale Nantes Mauritius Campus, winner of the first prize in the Mauritius Maritime Week essay competition 2018. She received her award from the Mauritian Prime Minister Hon. Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on 24 January 2018.

Congratulations to Victor Contreau - newly graduated from the Centrale Nantes degree apprenticeship programme in public works and construction - winner of the 2017 Graduation Project Challenge run by Eurovia, a subsidiary of the Vinci group.

Congratulations to Marie Dalémat and Thomas Balutch, who received first and second best poster awards at the 10th European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubbers (ECCMR), which was held in Munich from 29 to 31 August 2017.

Florent Laroche, lecturer and researcher at Centrale Nantes, has joined a prestigious circle of around 600 international manufacturing academics by becoming an associate member of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering).

Hermine TERTRAIS, PhD student at Centrale Nantes in the GeM - Institute for Research in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 51st International Microwave Power Institute (IMPI) Symposium held in Miami, from 20 to 22 June 2017.

Anass Cherki El Idrissi received the 'René Houpert' young researchers award at the 'Rencontres Annuelles Universitaires de Génie Civil' organised this year by the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering from 22 to 24 May in Nantes.